Exploring the metaverse with monthly meetings in Second Life

Next SL Future Salon on November 30th with Doug Engelbart Live from Palo Alto

Update: Salon postponed as Doug is under the weather. See this post for details

The next Second Life Future Salon meeting will take place on November 30th with digital interface legend Doug Engelbart, founder of the Bootstrap Institute, creator of the mouse and co-creator of hypertext among many other accomplishments.

Doug will be at the Bay Area Future Salon that night presenting on Large Scale Collective IQ and we'll stream the video live into Second Life. This is going to be so cool bringing one of the most foresighted pioneers of computing and how it can improve the world into the metaverse! It's also great that we're hooking up with our future salon neighbors out in Palo Alto (in the metaverse, everyone's your neighbor).

Beth Noveck, Professor at the New York Law School and originator of the Democracy Island project, has just released a paper called A Democracy of Groups that virtual reality pioneer Howard Rheingold called "one of the most important and exciting papers I've read since I first encountered Doug Engelbart's Augmenting Human Intellect [1962]." So Democracy Island is the perfect location for this and hopefully Beth and Doug can meet inworld.

Check out video of Doug's famous 1968 demo: "This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface." You can also grab the free podcast of Doug at Accelerating Change 2004.

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I am absolutely horrified by Beth Noveck's paper. And I mean -- throughly chilled. It is an intimation of totalitarianism for the 21st century so thorough, so blanketing, that it will make the 20th century versions seem like play-acting. Absolutely thorough, working from the inside out, through the "group mind" and the celebrated "collective" in cyberspace rather than from the outside in - where there was some respite.

First to go is the concept of an avatar as the expression of an individual, with individual rights and liberties. In Noveck's group-think world, the avatar is only a construct interacting with the community, and essentially the group's property.

I blogged a bit on this today but I can see I'll to spend months refuting it, because when someone is well-funded, peer-reviewed, and blessed as the source of "excitement" by leading lights, they're going to be overwhelming.

I just wish you could see it. I'm so profoundly sad over this. I can just see our Linden friends reading this in glee and sanctifying not only the vicious culture of the SL forums but all the vigilante groups that have sprung up all over SL lately to "help" the Lindens and suppress their fellow creatures in the name of "group values". Ugh.

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